On my unix box (Red Hat 6) I have Passenger set up to work as Apache Module. In the Passenger config I set PassengerUser apache to explicitly set my rails app to run as the apache user.
However, the Passenger Watchdog and Passenger Core processes run as root:
[root@myhost]# ps auxwf | grep -i passenger
root 25157 0.0 0.0 365176 5992 ? Ssl 12:36 0:00 \_ Passenger watchdog
root 25162 0.1 0.1 1417612 11852 ? SNl 12:36 0:01 | \_ Passenger core
apache 25227 0.0 1.4 506564 113520 ? Sl 12:37 0:00 Passenger RubyApp: /var/www/myapp(production)
Is this as intended? I read in some bug reports that those processes are supposed to drop privileges once set up, but I cannot find any official statements regarding this. As virtually all unix distros start the main Apache process as root, these processes running as root might be correct in the first place, I am just wondering if there is any documentation that sheds light into this.
